Immigrant Children Are Being Detained For Months. Their Families Decided To Sue.

willing to become sponsors have had to wait months to be fingerprinted and otherwise reviewed. Revealed: sick, tortured immigrants locked up for months in Britain We are starting to see signs that there could be long-term effects. While the government claims detainees are held briefly before being deported, 84 had not been given removal directions. You drive up the cost and you prolong the trauma on these children. Many of those parents were deported after they claim immigration officials tricked them into waiving their rights to reunification, splitting them up from their children indefinitely.